"Speak out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and I may not get back at all; it depends upon how the child is. But I wish it would not rain when poor little children are sick at night—it is the one thing that gives me the blues. And I wish infants could speak out and tell their symptoms. When I see grown people getting well as soon as they can minutely narrate to you all their ailments, my heart goes out to babies. Think how they would crow and gurgle, if they could only say what it is all about. But I don't see why people at large ...
— The Mettle of the Pasture • James Lane Allen
... Hakim knows that I have sworn to be faithful even unto death," said the old man proudly. "No, I will not leave you. I only speak out and tell you of our peril. If the prisoner we are trying to save were here I would say, Go this night. But he is not here, and our ...
— In the Mahdi's Grasp • George Manville Fenn
... you to speak out," she continued, in that despotic tone which a woman assumes when sure of ...
— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard
... pardon, Miss Clifford," I said, thinking it best to speak out just the honest truth, "but I supposed the doctor was taking me to see some of his old women, and so I have brought you a 1ittle tea, and a little sugar, and a bottle ...
— Stepping Heavenward • Mrs. E. Prentiss
... the return of the patient Odysseus, that so he may come to his home. But as for me I will go to Ithaca that I may rouse his son yet the more, planting might in his heart, to call an assembly of the long-haired Achaeans and speak out to all the wooers who slaughter continually the sheep of his thronging flocks, and his kine with trailing feet and shambling gait. And I will guide him to Sparta and to sandy Pylos to seek tidings of his dear father's return, if peradventure ...
— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.
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